Eighteen-year trajectories of depressive symptoms in mothers with a lifetime eating disorder: findings from the ALSPAC cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Two longitudinal studies have shown that depressive symptoms in women with eating disorders might improve in the antenatal and early postnatal periods. No study has followed up women beyond 8 months postnatal.

Aims

To investigate long-term trajectories of depressive symptoms in mothers with lifetime self-reported eating disorders.

Method

Using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children and multilevel growth curves we modelled trajectories of depressive symptoms from the 18th week of pregnancy to 18 years postnatal in women with lifetime self-reported anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or both anorexia and bulimia nervosa. As sensitivity analyses we also investigated these trajectories using quintiles of a continuous measure of body image i

SUBMITTER: Chua YW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7557597 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature